| Title |
The income elasticity of health care spending in developing and developed countries
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
International Journal of Health Economics and Management, March 2012
|
| DOI | 10.1007/s10754-012-9108-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Marwa Farag, A. K. NandaKumar, Stanley Wallack, Dominic Hodgkin, Gary Gaumer, Can Erbil |
| Abstract |
To date, international analyses on the strength of the relationship between country-level per capita income and per capita health expenditures have predominantly used developed countries' data. This study expands this work using a panel data set for 173 countries for the 1995-2006 period. We found that health care has an income elasticity that qualifies it as a necessity good, which is consistent with results of the most recent studies. Furthermore, we found that health care spending is least responsive to changes in income in low-income countries and most responsive to in middle-income countries with high-income countries falling in the middle. Finally, we found that 'Voice and Accountability' as an indicator of good governance seems to play a role in mobilizing more funds for health. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 106 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 105 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 25 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 14% |
| Researcher | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 7% |
| Professor | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 14% |
| Unknown | 28 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 35 | 33% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 11 | 10% |
| Unknown | 30 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 May 2023.
All research outputs
#1,524,772
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Health Economics and Management
#7
of 274 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,077
of 169,058 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Health Economics and Management
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,371,288 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 274 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 169,058 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 6 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them